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August 31, 2018

"Cats piloting mecha" means games are now taking inspiration from the NWR staff's browser history.

Devolver's 2019 lineup not only includes genocidal bananas, but also cats in robots.

Gato Roboto is the company's latest announcement, coming at PAX West and releasing wide in 2019. The game has an art style similar to recent Devolver Switch release Minit, but substitutes the overhead view for a side-scrolling exploration platformer.

August 30, 2018

And release dates for a Switch physical version and the Amiibo. (Hint: They're all the same.)

The Yacht Club Games team have revealed the release date for the final story expansion for their long-running success story.

Shovel Knight: King of Cards was revealed by IGN to be releasing on April 9 for both North America and Europe. Alongside it will be a release of Shovel Knight: Showdown, a multiplayer focused expansion with a story mode that features the knights battling in modes including a treasure hunting mode and a fighting game.

The Escapists 2 came out in January, and now its predecessor game has been remanded to Switch Penitentiary.

Team17 have confirmed that they are bringing The Escapists, a 2015 co-op escape game, to Switch later this year. Officially known as the Complete Edition, the Switch version will include nine DLC maps, including one that has never been seen on console previously known as Fhurst Peak.

August 29, 2018

Nintendo's latest mobile effort debuts on September 27, and they rolled out details about the game in a Direct earlier this evening.

The unnamed main character is a Pactbound, a human who formed a pact with a dragon known as Midgarsormr, and is the seventh in line to the throne of his kingdom. The Kingdom of Alberia is protected by Sacred Shards, whose powers are fading.

Into the Breach is out right now, and also a whole mess of other games ranging from TowerFall to Untitled Goose Game were shown.

Into the Breach, Samurai Gunn 2, and TowerFall headlined the reveals during Nintendo’s Nindies Showcase Summer 2018. Into the Breach, from the creators of FTL, is available today following its February 2018 PC launch.

TowerFall for Nintendo Switch was shown, revealing a new six-player mode,... Read more...

Nintendo has announced a few refreshes and some new Smashing gear today.

A special edition of Super Smash Bros. Ultimate has been announced that includes a black and white Switch Pro Controller with the game, as well as a steelbook case containing Smash Ultimate. The special edition has a US$139.99 MSRP, with the Pro Controller launching at $74.99. Both products will be available from December 7.

August 27, 2018

Way up north in Alaska, the hunt is on - but could someone check on Zach?

The retail space is well represented this week, as four different games pop into various shops on Tuesday (with Europe picking up a fifth in NISA's God Wars on Friday). The biggest of the guns is Monster Hunter Generations Ultimate, with cat puns and monsters ahoy. Also coming is Zach GOTY Blade Strangers... Read more...

August 24, 2018

Today during a Gamescom 2018 presentation on Xenoblade Chronicles 2: Torna the Golden Country, Nintendo revealed that Elma from Xenoblade Chronicles X would be added as a DLC character immediately. Elma can be added to your menagerie of Blades after completing her specific challege "Otherworldly Fighter" in challenge mode.

August 23, 2018

The gang is all here! Except for Krystal... Fay, Miyu, Dash, and maybe Amanda.

In a now removed video from Gamescom 2018, IGN has evidently revealed Peppy will be joining Fox on his journey through Atlas. Neither Ubisoft or Nintendo has commented on the reveal and the video was very quickly taken down. That being said, a quick screen grab of Peppy still gives us a great first look at Fox's stalwart mentor and friend.

After the European presentation this week for Gamescom, Nintendo of America is throwing a pre-PAX party.

NoA have announced a Nindies Showcase video will air on Tuesday, August 28 ahead of the PAX West expo the following weekend. Previous Showcase videos have aired prior to Switch's launch, before PAX West 2017, and alongside the Game Developer's Conference this year.

August 22, 2018

July was Nintendo's best month of the year so far in the US NPD Group's sales survey.

All data is for the period of July 8 to August 4.

In hardware, the Switch was the best selling system of July on both a unit sales and dollar sales basis, with Nintendo reporting their highest hardware unit sales for a July since 2009. This sets a bound for combined Nintendo hardware sales of between approximately 650k (July 2010) and 832k (2009).

Arena of Valor's release window is narrowing, and it's added some nice features.

The 5v5 multiplayer battle arena game will launch in September, which goes along with the previously announced "Fall" release for the full game. The servers for the game will be global, making it possible to team up with and battle players from all over the world.

The entire Telltale Walking Dead series is going to shamble onto the Switch by the end of the year.

Telltale has confirmed that 2012's Season 1 of their famous adventure series will launch on Switch next Tuesday (August 28) with Season Two to follow later this year. The Season 1 release will also include 2013's 400 Days expansion.